This dissertation traces the development, growth, and eventual fall of a white Creole intellectual and literary community in New Orleans, beginning in the 1820s and continuing for a century thereafter. In histories and novels, poetry and prose, the...

Act of mortgage granted by Bernard Marigny and his wife, Anne Mathilde Morales, to the Citizens' Bank of Louisiana. Before Notary Public Théodore Seghers in New Orleans, Marigny and his wife declared that, by an act passed on 27 June 1836, Marigny...

Sale by Lislet Moreau to Bernard Marigny of a 14-year old slave to be treated like a free woman of color and "as if he would his own children," but not to be liberated without the consent of the vendor.